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Safe dispensing practice: development and evaluation of a blended learning tool to enhance dispensing in pharmacy practice education

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Hope, D.
Hattingh, H. Laetitia
Haywood, A.
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2011
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Hope, D. and Hattingh, H.L. and Haywood, A. 2011. Safe dispensing practice: development and evaluation of a blended learning tool to enhance dispensing in pharmacy practice education, in I. Candel Torres, L. Gomez Chova, A. Lopez Martinez (ed), 4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2011), Nov 14 2011. Madrid, Spain: International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED).
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4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2011) Proceedings
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Prescription dispensing is one of the core functions of a pharmacist. It is a complex process that involves a range of cognitive and manual steps. Ideally, pharmacy students first need to perform basic dispensing data processing functions before proceeding to more complicated clinical interpretation functions. From a training perspective, it is therefore important to introduce the various steps to pharmacy students in a sequential and systematic way. The aim of this project was to develop a blended learning tool to be utilised by pharmacy students over consecutive years of their program and to evaluate the impact of the tool on students’ knowledge, understanding and application of the dispensing process